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$1 1935A NORTH AFRICA DOLLAR PCGS 65PPQ NO RESERVE RARE
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$1 1935A NORTH AFRICA DOLLAR PCGS 65PPQ NO RESERVE RARE
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Scrumptious and beautiful eye candy. is a major rarity of immense desirability and prestigous importance. Stunning originality, eye popping color, and deep thrust embossing merge in this exciting dream wonder relic. An opportunity unlikely to reoccur soon. We Americans like to think we are immune from lots of things. Among these are domestic wars.We read about foreign conflicts in the news, but we think of these things more in the terms of news entertainment rather than reality. We haven't had a war on our own soil since the end of the Civil War in 1865. During the Civil War period t were lots of emergency money issues. These included what today are called Patriotic Civil War tokens, Merchant tokens, fractional bank notes, encased postage and more. Collectors are either confused or intrigued by these issues, but nonetheless they are viewed as something out of our historic past. Today when emergency money in the form of locally-issued tokens, unusual paper scrip or rebel coinage are issued somew in the world we view it just as that-something to collect from somew else in the world. To most of us it is simply something relating to what we have heard on the news, but it doesn't touch us personally since the conflict is so far away. Actually, the United States has issued emergency money in relatively recent years due to conflicts in which it has been involved. World War II and the more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and even Haiti have been times w emergency money has been issued in one form or another. During World War II the United States issued 5-cent "nickel" coins comprised of copper-silver-maganese alloy between 1942 and 1945 due to the need for nickel in various war materials. Some 1942 nickels and all others through 1945 display a large P (Philadelphia), D (Denver) or S (San Francisco) above the dome of Monticello on the reverse to identify the Mint of issue. This is also to distinguish the coins from those produced of nickel. Perhaps the most noticeable of our World War II emergency issues was the 1943 zinc-coated steel cents, followed by the shell-case bronze cents of 1944 and 1945. The white color cents of 1943 were found to be confusing when compared to a dime and dirty in appearance once they circulated. Most were later mercifully dumped into the Atlantic Ocean w they presumably poisoned the fish. Emergency paper money was also issued during World War II. Some bank notes were overprinted with the word AFRICA or HAWAII, each issued in the appropriate region (Allied troops occupied North Africa.), keeping in mind if the area was overrun by the enemy the notes could quickly be declared withdrawn before the money could be seized and used against us through the purchase of needed supplies by our enemies. Allied Occupation Currency followed in Europe and Japan following the war. This was produced in the form of paper money, but not coins. Beginning about the time of the Korean Conflict the United States began to issue Military Payment Certificates to troops both in war zones and in any area deemed to be militarily and politically unstable. As with the World War II overprints the idea was the notes could be quickly withdrawn if large quantities were captured by an enemy, if counterfeiting became a problem or simply if the local black market got too far out of hand trading in them. The concept of the MPC continued through the so-called peaceful period between the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War, then was again used during the Vietnam War. Some of these issues were withdrawn on short notice in favor of others when it was deemed appropriate by the military. I have heard at least one unsubstantiated story about an officer in a U.S.-occupied Vietnam village who heard a series of the MPCs were going to be withdrawn and proceeded to make purchases with monopoly money, claiming this was the new replacement scrip. Readers should be cautious; this could yet another tale in a series of urban legends about currency and many other t... 
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